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[Harpa]

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@Nonametoday wrote:

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@Harpa wrote:

Good catch, @BarbiHollywood !

Somebody must have been drinking one when they designed this!

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@Harpa 

Someone in China had a visual disacuity that day or either the designer misspelled it.  I see that in business so often.  It used to bother me but since I was told by the ivy league English specialists that as long as you know what they are talking about, because there are so many languages spoken in this country that we cannot expect everyone to speak it as we do and we will eventually go to the language spoken in California, whatever that may be.

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Every now and then I catch a misspelling on a news ticker!

But I do think QVC is the worst offender when it comes to mispronunciations.

Does it bother me? If one speaks or writes for a living, then I do expect better.

[Nonametoday]

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@Andreatoo wrote:

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@BarbiHollywood wrote:

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@Andreatoo wrote:

That's pretty bad but just as bad was a week or 2 ago when neither Amy nor Lori could pronounce the color of a top. At least Amy admitted she hadn't a clue but Lori proclaimed, with some authority, anemone is pronounced Ann Uh Moe Knee!

Didn't anyone talking into their ears know the correct pronunciation??

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@Andreatoo I heard it.  I think it was ochre which is like a yellow-y mustard-y color, not to be confused with the food, okra.

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@BarbiHollywood 

I did not hear the ochre mistake. It was 'anemone' that drove me crazy

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@Andreatoo @BarbiHollywood 

How about HOT Hippie instead of Haute (hote) Hippie.

[Nonametoday]

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@Harpa wrote:

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@Nonametoday wrote:

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@Harpa wrote:

Good catch, @BarbiHollywood !

Somebody must have been drinking one when they designed this!

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@Harpa 

Someone in China had a visual disacuity that day or either the designer misspelled it.  I see that in business so often.  It used to bother me but since I was told by the ivy league English specialists that as long as you know what they are talking about, because there are so many languages spoken in this country that we cannot expect everyone to speak it as we do and we will eventually go to the language spoken in California, whatever that may be.

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Every now and then I catch a misspelling on a news ticker!

But I do think QVC is the worst offender when it comes to mispronunciations.

Does it bother me? If one speaks or writes for a living, then I do expect better.

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@Harpa 

The worst offenders of objective/subjectives and subject/verb disagreement are the talking heads and TV news media on every channel and every cable.  Even the most well-educated lawyers who have become talking heads are awful.  It used to bother me, for about 30 years, and then I decided to just give up.  Nobody will ask me to teach them so why should I care that the public is being acclimated to the same verbal mistakes they made in junior high that cost them points on their papers  Now they think they should go back and tell their English teacher that XXXX says it on TV so it must be right.  WRONG!

[BarbiHollywood]

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@Nonametoday wrote:

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@Harpa wrote:

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@Nonametoday wrote:

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@Harpa wrote:

Good catch, @BarbiHollywood !

Somebody must have been drinking one when they designed this!

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@Harpa 

Someone in China had a visual disacuity that day or either the designer misspelled it.  I see that in business so often.  It used to bother me but since I was told by the ivy league English specialists that as long as you know what they are talking about, because there are so many languages spoken in this country that we cannot expect everyone to speak it as we do and we will eventually go to the language spoken in California, whatever that may be.

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Every now and then I catch a misspelling on a news ticker!

But I do think QVC is the worst offender when it comes to mispronunciations.

Does it bother me? If one speaks or writes for a living, then I do expect better.

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@Harpa 

The worst offenders of objective/subjectives and subject/verb disagreement are the talking heads and TV news media on every channel and every cable.  Even the most well-educated lawyers who have become talking heads are awful.  It used to bother me, for about 30 years, and then I decided to just give up.  Nobody will ask me to teach them so why should I care that the public is being acclimated to the same verbal mistakes they made in junior high that cost them points on their papers  Now they think they should go back and tell their English teacher that XXXX says it on TV so it must be right.  WRONG!

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@Nonametoday   Agree!  One thing that drives me nuts - as was in this particular case with the t-shirt - is seeing a silly typo on things that people paid money for.  For example, on menus.  Someone should have proofed it, it's that easy, but probably not done.  A funny personal instance was when my husband had a custom exterior canopy done for our business.  It was to have the business name, phone number, and email address.  Hubby knows typos upset me so he sent me to proof it.  Well, the signmaker had already installed the letters and numbers on the sign before I got there so imagine how surprised I was when the phone number had an extra TWO digits.  TWOOOO.  Who doesn't know how many digits are in a phone number, duh??!!!  Yes, the sign guy remade the sign!!!  LOL!  Anyway, I'm just glad that someone at QVC pulled those t-shirts and will, hopefully, re-do the shirts before they're sent to customers.  :-)

[Sooner]

Things like this happen because we now uphold, overlook, make excuses for and cherish ignorance.  

As in "I'm not stupid I'm just ignorant!"  Which I guess is ok.   Some people just don't make the effort now. 

[Andreatoo]

Want to really be irritated? (Yes yes! they all scream) Just turn on the closed captioning. All of your heads will explode!

[Nonametoday]

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@Andreatoo wrote:

Want to really be irritated? (Yes yes! they all scream) Just turn on the closed captioning. All of your heads will explode!

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@Andreatoo 

In fact, I was told that the future will be "word recognition."  Problem is, no matter what region you are from, what country or state, city, no two people sound exactly alike and while people from Michigan may make light the speech spoken by Texans, or New York people make light of Mississippi speak, I would be willing to bet (and know for a fact, no two NYers or no two Alabamians sound exactly alike; in France and in London, no two Frenchmen or women; no two Brits speak exactly a like) and there is no way word recognition, which is what closed caption" is, will be able to recognize every word spoken by a human being because it is based on getting accustomed to one voice, the one who trains it.  I bet there are no two of us at QVC who sound exactly alike.  As an English major and one whose voice projects, I was asked to train VR 30 years ago or more and I knew right off it was going to be a disaster.  They kept telling me, "it's going to get better, it's going to get better and in 20 years, it will be perfect."  It's still not perfect and never will be.

[Andreatoo]

@Nonametoday 

And when it's pre-recorded?! No excuse

Rather recently, during the riots, there was an incident of throwing 'mazel tov cocktails.'......... Come the he!! on?!

[Sooner]

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@Andreatoo wrote:

@Nonametoday 

And when it's pre-recorded?! No excuse

Rather recently, during the riots, there was an incident of throwing 'mazel tov cocktails.'......... Come the he!! on?!

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@Andreatoo @Nonametoday 

I have come to believe the news people are the leaders of the pack when it comes to the poorly educated.  Leading by far. . .